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To: JRandomFreeper
There is a lot of material for these in the raw image gallery that they don't publish for some reason. I paid for a download of PTgui, which does a comparable job, and I can pick my subjects. Hate to say it but I missed this one! Note they have given it the "way-it-would-look-on-earth" treatment, which kind of baffles me. If you look at the Sol 106 Mastcam raw image gallery you will see the natural appearance. I read a comment from JPL saying that although they couldn't guarantee exactly how it would appear if you were there, the raw images are the way it would appear if you took cellphone pictures of it, because it is essentially the same technology.
16 posted on 02/05/2013 7:44:24 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew
Note they have given it the "way-it-would-look-on-earth" treatment, which kind of baffles me.

Because my eyes are adapted to the amount of light that reaches Terra, the light balance thing they do allows a human like me (seriously, I'm human, really, cooks are human) to identify objects like metamorphic rock vs. sedimenatary rock pretty easily.

In natural Mars light, I would have a tougher time identifying objects, not counting the freezing and exploding and asphyxiating thing.

/johnny

17 posted on 02/05/2013 7:59:14 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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